Several Psychology students from SMU’s School of Social Sciences (SOSS) have more reason to celebrate this festive season as their hard work paid off and they received a number of awards and grants from external Psychology establishments.
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Diversity Undergraduate Registration Award
Amos Tai, a first year student reading the Fast Track Master of Philosophy in Psychology (FTMP), received SPSP’s Diversity Registration Award that will fund his attendance at the SPSP 2022 conference next February. The award aims to increase diversity within the field of personality and social psychology.
He will present his research poster on Manipulations of Subjective Socioeconomic Status: A Meta-Analysis of Effect Size. The meta-analysis compared the effectiveness of four types of manipulations of subjective socioeconomic status (SES)—social comparisons, money primes, imagined scenarios, and false feedback. The paper concluded that social comparisons and imagined scenarios were the most effective at inducing perceptions of high or low subjective SES.
According to Amos, “Receiving this award is one of the small victories that I can savour as part of this research journey that I have only just begun to embark on. Moving forward, I have plans to carry my research ambitions further as I continue to learn more through the Fast-Track Masters Programme and pursue my own lines of research under the supervision of my advisor. The next milestone (after finals) would be the poster presentation at the 2022 SPSP annual conference which still requires some work to touch up on! Thereafter, I will be working on a larger-scale project together with my advisor that I am very excited about!”
International Society for Self & Identity (ISSI) 2021 Mini Research Grant Program
The ISSI Mini Grant aims to provide research support to graduate students and early-career researchers in the field of self and identity.
Nadyanna M. Majeed, 2nd year FTMP student, was among the 6 recipients for ISSI 2021 Mini Research Grant Program. Her Master Thesis’s proposal was the top 10% of international submissions that were selected for funding. This grant of US$1,000 will fund her ongoing master’s thesis data collection entirely.
She will be studying the relationships between self/identity and cognitive performance for her Master’s thesis on self & identity.
Singapore Psychological Society Student Research Awards 2021
Five School of Social Sciences students won 7 awards at the SPS Student Research Awards 2021. They are our FTMP students - Nadyanna M. Majeed, Nicole Chen and BSocSc (Psychology) students - Joax Wong, Poh Xin Yi and Verity Lua. This is Joax, Xin Yi and Nicole’s first time competing for this award.
The Student Research Awards (SRA) is an annual initiative of the SPS to acknowledge budding researchers and celebrate outstanding research done in Singapore that is relevant to the Singapore community. The submission is open to all tertiary academic institutions in Singapore across all domains of psychology and awards are given to the top research in the diploma, undergraduate, and postgraduate categories each.
SRA 2021 was held online on 11 December 2021. Shortlisted students were invited to present their research at the event.
• Winner: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Relationship Between Social Media and Well-Being: A Fresh Perspective in the Context of COVID-19 by Joax Wong & Poh Xin Yi
• 2nd Runner-up, Best Research for Undergraduate Category: Daily within-person investigation on the link between social expectancies to be busy and emotional wellbeing among Singaporeans: The moderating role of emotional complexity acceptance by Verity Lua
• 1st Runner-up, Best Research for Postgraduate Category: I Think, Therefore I Am? Meta-Perceptions of Racial Group Inferiority and Foreignness Predict Actual Self-Perceptions by Nadyanna M. Majeed
• 2nd Runner-up, Best Research for Postgraduate Category: Dispositional Optimism and Sleep: A Meta-Analytic Review of the State of the Field by Nadyanna M. Majeed & Nicole Chen
• Winner of Best Group Submissions: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Relationship Between Social Media and Well-Being: A Fresh Perspective in the Context of COVID-19 by Joax Wong & Poh Xin Yi
• Top 3 for Best Group Submissions: Dispositional Optimism and Sleep: A Meta-Analytic Review of the State of the Field by Nadyanna M. Majeed & Nicole Chen
• Top 3 for Best Individual Submissions: I Think, Therefore I Am? Meta-Perceptions of Racial Group Inferiority and Foreignness Predict Actual Self-Perceptions by Nadyanna M. Majeed
• Winner, Audience Choice Award: A daily within-person investigation on the link between social expectancies to be busy and emotional wellbeing among Singaporeans: The moderating role of emotional complexity acceptance by Verity Lua
Verity has also won this two years in a row, being the best presenter in SRA 2021.
Congratulations to all our students on their achievements!